TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Leila R. TI - English for Careers: Business, Professional, and Technical SN - 013080231X (Student Book) AV - PE1115 .S62 1999 PY - 1999/// CY - Upper Saddle River, NJ PB - Prentice Hall KW - English language KW - Business English KW - Problems, exercises, etc KW - Technical English N1 - Includes index; "Even though you learn the advanced technology of your chosen field, you may not get the job you want if your communication ability is inadequate. Someone who does get the job may lose it when it is discovered the employee can't spell or write a clear, correct sentence. Others may keep their jobs but stay at a dead end, unable to advance to meaningful careers because of poor or mediocre oral or written communication.[...] ; Each of the 145 chapters has starting pages that include a painting or people at work in a particular career; objectives, and an introduction to that chapter's topics. The starting pages enable you to find out exactly what skills and knowledge you should expect to acquire by the time you complete the chapter ; Next come unique learning steps called Read, Recap, and Replay. When you Read, you get information in small portions. Then you apply what you just read by answering a few questions in a Recap. After another short "portion" or two often followed by short Recaps, you verify that you've learned by answering the Replay questions. As soon as you complete a Recap or a Replay, check your answers in Appendix F beggining on page 373."; CONTENTS ; Dear Student ; About the Author ; Acknowledgements ; 1. Tools of the Trade ; Parts of Speech ; READ, RECAP, REPLAY ; 1. Who or What ; 2. Doing, Being, and Helping ; 3. The Modifiers ; 4. The Connectors ; 5. Versatile Tools ; 6. BONUS Latest Letter Layout ; Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz ; 2. Secret Life of a Sentence Revealed ; READ, RECAP, REPLAY ; 7. Identity, Action, and Independence ; 8. Fragments, Anyone? ; 9. Capital Punishment ; 10. Three Important Connections ; 11. The Missing Key ; 12. BONUS Making More Connections ; Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz ; 3. Ain't Is in the Dictionary ; READ, RECAP, REPLAY ; 13. All Shapes and Sizes ; 14. Misspellers Anonymous ; 15. Cracking the Code ; 16. BONUS An Owner's Manual ; Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz ; 4. Apples, Tigers, and Swahili: Plural, Compound, Proper, and Biased Nouns ; READ, RECAP, REPLAY ; 17. Safety in Numbers ; 18. The Eccentric Nouns ; 19. Compounds and Propers ; 20. Banishing Bias from Business English ; 21. Vocabulary Improvement ; 22. BONUS Plurals Out of Uniform ; Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz ; 5. Be Kind to the Substitute Week: Pronouns ; READ, RECAP, REPLAY ; 23. Just Between You and Me ; 24. Me, Myself, and I ; 25. A Tale of a Lizard's Tale ; 26. A Whodunit ; 27. Everybody Needs Milk ; 28. BONUS A Gaggle of Geese ; Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz ; 6. Looking for the Action?: Then Find the Verbs ; READ, RECAP, REPLAY ; 29. Timely Tips ; 30. Delinquent Verbs ; 31. Dictionary Data ; 32. To Be, or Not To Be ; 33. Identifying the Subjects and Verbs ; 34. Making the Subject and Verb Agree ; 35. If I Were a Millionaire ; 36. BONUS A Swarm of Bees ; - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz ; 7. Words That Describe: Adjectives and Adverbs ; READ, RECAP, REPLAY ; 37. Pointers for Pointers ; 38. Three Little Words ; 39. I Don't Want No Broccoli ; 40. Good, Gooder, Goodest?? ; 41. To Ly or Not to Ly, That Is the Question ; 42. BONUS More Shakespeare/Comparisons ; - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz ; 8. The Taming of the Apostrophe ; READ, RECAP, REPLAY ; 43. The Ubiquitous S ; 44. Before or After? ; 45. BONUS More Apostrophes ; - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz ; 9. The Pause That Refreshes: Commas ; READ, RECAP, REPLAY ; 46. Wine, Women, and Song ; 47. For Adjectives Only ; 48. Independents Day ; 49. Curtain Raisers ; 50. Four Easy Commas ; 51. A Comma Medley ; 52. To Comma or Not to Comma ; 53. BONUS Uncommon Commas ; - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz ; 10. Punctuation Potpourri ; READ, RECAP, REPLAY ; 54. In Conclusion . ! ? ; 55. The Halfway Mark ; 56. An Easy Mark ; 57. "Plagiarism's Enemy" ; 58. Half a Dash - ; 59. Wild Apostrophes' ; 60. BONUS Good Marsmanship -- () ; - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz ; 11. A Business Dictionary ; READ, RECAP, REPLAY ; 61. Account Executive Through Byte ; 62. Certificate of Deposit Through Exchange Rate ; 63. Exemption Through Local Area Network ; 64. Markup Through Power of Attorney ; 65. Promissory Note Through WYSIWIG ; 66. BONUS Spelling and Pronunciation ; - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz ; 12. Weather or Knot: Homonyms, Prepositions, Pronunciation ; READ, RECAP, REPLAY ; 67. Confusing Pears ; 68. An Apple Has a Peel ; 69. Lettuce Devise a Device ; 70. More Look-Alikes ; 71. Dos' and Don'ts for Prepositions ; 72. BONUS Let's Talk Business ; - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz ; 13. Sentence Power: Conciseness, Smoothness, Parallel Construction, Misplaced Modifiers, Vague Pronouns, Active/Passive Voice, Dangling Verbals ; READ, RECAP, REPLAY ; 73. Secret Review ; 74. Dick and Jane ; 75. Ladies with Concrete Heads and Parallel Parts ; 76. The Beeline ; 77. BONUS Don't Let Your Verbals Dangle in Public ; - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz ; 14. Sincerely Yours: Business Letters ; READ, RECAP, REPLAY ; 78. Looking Good ; 79. Choosing the Right Parts for the Right Places ; 80. Arranging the Parts Attractively and Correctly ; 81. BONUS Sounding Good ; - Checkpoint, Special Assignments, Proofreading for Careers, Practice Quiz ; APPENDIXES ; A Pop Quizzes ; B Spelling and Vocabulary for Careers ; C Final Rehearsal ; D Mini Reference Manual Read and Replay ; E Grammar for the Expert ; F Recap and Replay Answers ; Index UR - http://www.mypearsonstore.ca/bookstore/english-for-careers-business-professional-and-technical-9780132619301 ER -